
You must not show your emotions?! STOP!
I often hear that there are "bad" and "good" emotions. Many people believe that being angry is not allowed, that being afraid is harmful, that being sad is bad, and so on. Sometimes I meet people who will not let themselves show emotions that they, or those around them, consider "bad". Sadly, all of this is imposed by social norms: from early childhood a child hears phrases such as "Don't cry so loudly, what will people say" and the like. Besides forbidding expression, remarks like these also impose a f









